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Hi! Looking to relocate to RTP area from CO. Will work out of a home office, so high speed Internet is a must, due to security/firewalls on my company's network servers. Satellite Internet won't do - gotta be cable configuration. Some suburban neighborhoods don’t seem too remote, but they have septic, propane, etc. Makes me wonder if cable Internet infrastructure is just not there either? Realtors I’ve asked either don’t know, or tell me neighborhood “probably” has it - not a definitive answer. Could anyone on this board advise on areas where it is not available - areas that I should avoid looking? Thanks all!
Hi! Looking to relocate to RTP area from CO. Will work out of a home office, so high speed Internet is a must, due to security/firewalls on my company's network servers. Satellite Internet won't do - gotta be cable configuration. Some suburban neighborhoods don’t seem too remote, but they have septic, propane, etc. Makes me wonder if cable Internet infrastructure is just not there either? Realtors I’ve asked either don’t know, or tell me neighborhood “probably” has it - not a definitive answer. Could anyone on this board advise on areas where it is not available - areas that I should avoid looking? Thanks all!
In Durham Co., the only area where I know there are challenges is unincorporated northern Durham Co., near the Person Co. border. I have colleagues there who relied on satellite because they were too far from CO's for DSL and did not have CATV services in their neighborhoods. However, I don't think this is issue anywhere south of (say) the Treyburn area -- practically the entire county is covered by TWC for their high-speed internet and cable services, plus DSL from Frontier.
In Wake county you won't have any problems in any of the towns. If you have a neighborhood in mind use the Time Warner site to check an address for availability -
Thanks to all for your input. I have been reviewing some other posts on this board.... is it really true, there is no competing cable company in the area (eg. Comcast or Cox)?
Thanks to all for your input. I have been reviewing some other posts on this board.... is it really true, there is no competing cable company in the area (eg. Comcast or Cox)?
That's correct - TWC has a monopoly for cable Internet service here. Earthlink resells TWC's service under its own brand and that might save you some money, but they don't offer the two higher speed tiers (30 Mbps and 50 Mbps) that TWC does. They cap out at 15 Mbps.
For what it's worth, cable monopolies have been the rule in most other places I've lived, too.
Thanks to all for your input. I have been reviewing some other posts on this board.... is it really true, there is no competing cable company in the area (eg. Comcast or Cox)?
I would be very curious if you're coming from a place in Colorado that had multiple competing cable options, how that worked? Municipally-owned fiber/cabling to the house with multiple providers over one pipe, or something else...? As the PP noted, I've only ever lived in places that had one and only one cable company -- Time Warner here, Bright House in Florida, Comcast in Boston, etc.
The max speeds TWC offers are 50 Mb/s download, 5 Mb/s upload. Should likely be fast enough for work from home situations. (DOCSIS 3 network.)
The one town with real competing options is Wilson, where Greenlight is available as a municipally-run fiber to the home network. However, it is pricier than TWC and Wilson is also not a popular option in the Triangle due to its peripheral location -- about an hour outside RTP.
Hi Bull City Rising: whoops, you make a good point - I've never lived anywhere with multiple competing cable options either, so I guess my question was a moot point :-(
Also, now I see the typo in my original post: I'm from CA, not CO.
Where I currently live in CA, we have Time Warner in one part of the city and Cox in the other. But I can't choose one over the other. Thanks for the info on the upload/download speeds, that is helpful!
There's also AT&T U-verse in some places if you want to go the fiber route.
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